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Kalidurga

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10. Well now that sounds like a good plan...

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Reply #7)

Mon Jan 14, 2013, 03:37 PM

Jan 2013

Why do the religious get to demand to be special little snowflakes.

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Vegan refuses vaccination on �religious� grounds [View all] rug Jan 2013 OP

That's a conundrum, but less so because she works as a customer service representative. cbayer Jan 2013 #1

Not necessarily customerserviceguy Jan 2013 #2

While that may be true, she presents no more risk than your average citizen. cbayer Jan 2013 #3

Other than people who truly live in caves SheilaT Jan 2013 #4

And people who live in caves customerserviceguy Jan 2013 #6

You do realise that CSR includes the coffee shop lady... TheMadMonk Jan 2013 #27

Yes I do. That's going to be true of everyone in your local coffee shop, cbayer Jan 2013 #28

Anyone is free to go to hell in their own handbasket. TheMadMonk Jan 2013 #29

You have seen an ICU nurse go from colostomy bag to dressing on a brain surgery patient cbayer Jan 2013 #30

I didn't. My mother did, and you can bet she raised... TheMadMonk Jan 2013 #31

Veganism can be a religion... Kalidurga Jan 2013 #5

If "the minute a person says it's religion it is", then you can have no religious exemptions muriel_volestrangler Jan 2013 #7

Well now that sounds like a good plan... Kalidurga Jan 2013 #10

Because of the first amendment. Is that ok? cbayer Jan 2013 #12

I'm sorry is there something in the first amendment that Kalidurga Jan 2013 #13

Yes there is. It explicitly protects freedom of religion from governmental interference. cbayer Jan 2013 #14

So if there is no definition... Kalidurga Jan 2013 #15

At the time it was written, there apparently was no need for a definition. cbayer Jan 2013 #16

I find this argument weak. Kalidurga Jan 2013 #17

This country was founded primarily by groups who were escaping religious prosecution. cbayer Jan 2013 #18

I didn't say the government can't protect against discrimination. Kalidurga Jan 2013 #19

I want to be clear about the government's role. cbayer Jan 2013 #20

Now we are getting somewhere... Kalidurga Jan 2013 #21

The definition part, as you point out, is the most complicated, but you bring up a good cbayer Jan 2013 #22

That's kind of the mythy version of that. Goblinmonger Jan 2013 #23

The Church of England was the official religion of 5 of the 13 colonies that rebelled. rug Jan 2013 #25

No. It. Was. Not. This COUNTRY was founded on no such thing. cleanhippie Jan 2013 #33

"Otherwise everyone could claim that something they believed in was a religion" cleanhippie Jan 2013 #32

It sounds like you probably would not object to the vaccine based on your reasons cbayer Jan 2013 #8

No I don't object to vaccines based on that. Kalidurga Jan 2013 #11

Whether you call it "religious" or not, if you adopt special self-imposed rules for yourself... Silent3 Jan 2013 #9

I agree elfin Jan 2013 #26

I picture a EvilAL Jan 2013 #24